Shocker attachment for harvesters.



E. W. FRITZ.`

SHOGKEB ATTACHMENT EOE HARVESTERS.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG.11,19oa.

Ptented Apr. 6, 1909.

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1 Mlm 3 fl O EMANUEL W. FRITZ, OF DENTON, TEXAS.

SHOCICER ATTACHMENT FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 6, 1909.

Application led August 11, 1908. Serial No. 448,034.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EMANUEL W. FRITZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Den: ton, in the county of Denton and State ot Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Shocker Attachment for Herve/sters, of wliiehthe following is a speci'cation.

This invention has relation to shocker attachment lior harvesters, andit consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, ashereinafter shown and described.

The object et the invention is to provide an attachment of the characterindicated. which is ot simple construction and of light weight, andwhich may be easily and readily manipulated whereby the same mayaccumulate bundles as they are delivered from the harvester, and, atcertain intervals, the said attachment may be operated whereby the saidbundles are deposited in the form of' a shock upon the ground.

Vtlith this object in view', the attachment consists, primarily, of anarm which is mounted u pon the tra-nie of the harvester and which isadapted to have partial rota tion in the direction in which theharvesting machine is moving, for the purpose of delivering the shock,and in the opposite direction when it is assuming its normal positiontor the reception of bundles from the harvcster. said arm and term acradle for the reception ci' the bundles, a gripping arm is pivotallymounted upon the said rotary arm and a spring is attached at itsopposite ends the said arms and tendency to hold the gripping arm awayVfrom the rotary arm. A cable is connected at one end with the saidgripping arm and at i pile already collected upon the said slats the itsother end is in the vicinity of the operators seat upon the harvester,whereby the said cable may oe easily reached and when drawn toward thesaid gripping arm be swung down toward the rotary arm. A cable isconnected at one end with the rotary arm and passes around the frame ofthe harvester and lies at its other end in the vicinity ot the opcratorsseat, who may operate the last said cable whereby the said rotary armturned as above indicated.

lFigure l. is a side elevation of the shocker. Fig. 2 is a top plan viewof the same. Fig. 3 is an end View, showing the same in the act ol'depositing a shock Parallel slats are mounted upon the with is undertension with. a

of the shocker, showing the positions of the parts after the shock isdeposited.

The attachment consists oi' the arm l which is rotatably mounted uponthe frame of' the harvester and is provided at its outer portion withthe concaved section 2. The curved gripper arm 3 is pivotal y attachedat one end to the outer extremity of the arm 1 and the spring t isconnected at one end with the said gripper arm 3 and at its opposite endwith a bracket 5 carried by the outer end portion of the arm l. Thespring 4 is under 'tension with tendency to hold the inner or free endof the gripper arm 3 away from the intermediate portion of the arm 1,The parallel slats 6 are mounted upon the upper side of the concavedportion or section 2 of the arm l. and forms a cradle for the receptionof' bundles of grain from the harvesting` machine. The standard 7 isarranged upon the intermediate portion of the gripper arm 3 and a cableS is connected at one end with the upper end of the said standard and atits opposite end normally in the vicinity of the portion of theharvester that is occupied by the operator. The cable?) is attached atone end to the arm l and passes around the frame ol' the harvestingmachine, and lies at its opposite end in the vicinity of the spaceoccupied by the operator.

The operation of the shock-forming attachment is as followszAs thebundles of grain are tied upon the grain deck of the harvesting machineand are delivered from the edge thereof they fall upon the slats 6 ofthe attachment and the operator, by drawing upon the cable 8, holds thegripper arm 3 l down upon the upper side of the said bundles.

As each successive bundle is added to the operator permits the cable 8to become slack so that the gripper arm 3 under the impulse of thespring 4. may swing away from the bundles already deposited. upon theslats, whereby the oncoming bundle may he deposited thereon also. Afterthe deposit oi each bundle the operator again draws the cable S taut sothat the gripper arm is held down upon the bundle the major portion ofthe time, and is only permitted to swing away in order to enable asuccessive bundle to be added to the pile. Then suilicient bundles havebeen collected the cable 9 is Fig. 4 is an end view l drawn by theoperator which partially rois located tates the arm Land thusthe`buttfendsof the bundles are brought into contact With the ground andthey are set up in shock form. The operator then gives the cable 9 afurther pull Which causes the slats 6 and the con-- caved section 2ofthe arm l to swing up over the standing shock, and at the Sametime thecable 8 is permitted to pay out whereby the .gripper arm 3 will swingaway from the shock just deposited upon the ground. Thus, astheharvestlng machine advances,

the shocking attachment passes over the top tention will be required onthe part of an op-V erator, thus saving the expense of hands followingthe machine for the purpose of setting the bundles up into shocks.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters y, 9 Patent, is

1. A shocker for harvesting machines comprising anarm mounted-forrotation and havy ing a concaved outer portion, parallel slats mountedupon the concaved portion of the arm, means forpartially rotating thearm, a

gripper arm pivotally connected With the first saidarm,aspringiconnecting the gripper arm with the rotary arm and being undertension'with a tendency to hold the free end ofthe gripper arm away fromthe rotary arm and means for swinging the free end of the gripper armtoward the rotary arm.

2. A shocker attachment for grain harvesters comprising anarm mountedfor rotation and'havinga concaved outer portion, parallel slats mountedon the concaved portion of said arm, a cable connected with the said armand adapted to be used to rotate the same, a gripperarm pivotallj,Tconnected with the rstl said arm, aspx-ing connected at its ends lWiththe said arms being under tension with a tendency to swing the gripperarm away from the first said' arm, a standard mounted on the gripperarm, a cable connected at one end with the said standard and adapted todraw the gripper arm tov@ ard the rotary arm.

In testimony vthat I claim the foregoing-'as my own, I have heretoaffixed my signaturel in the presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL `W. FRITZ.

ViIitnesses 2 S. H. Hoskins, W. N. MASTERS.

